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  •  lkjh (none / 0)

    I didn't say anything about over the top action or cheesy dialogue. I said the film had terrible dialogue, crap characters and story development. Cheesy dialogue would have been a welcomed improvement.
     I think star wars at least had developed characters that I actually cared about which is why I don't agree with the analogy at all. Star Wars also had a much better story and could have stood on it's own without two other movies. The Millennium Falcon had more personality  then anyone in Gears. Gears of War  plot and charcter depth wise is more comparable to Alien Resurrection if you really have to place it in some film franchise. Action wise, it's totally Aliens, which had over the top action/cheesy dialogue/ and a great story (Yay Cameron.)

    Games don't have to be shaksperian works of art, but if developers want to be taken seriously by other forms of media then they need to realize that they have the oppertunity to tell a great story, and are in a medium that lets you do so in new and interesting ways. We can and should have the complete package.

    by Mel O Rama on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 09:13:53 AM EDT

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    •  I totally agree (none / 0)

      that video games offer a totally new way to tell a story, and developers have yet to fully take advantage of that. It's sad, really. I don't think that a game needs a good story to be a good game; unlike movies, games actually have interaction which makes them fun to play. However, you are right, there is no reason not to include a good story, especially when working with a medium that can make a person feel more emotion than a movie or book ever could.

      "The creatures were friendly and could see in four dimensions. They pitied the Earthlings for being able to see only three." -Slaughterhouse-5

      by StarborneRanger on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 01:25:57 PM EDT

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